3.4 The Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities Background In 2011, the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) continued to be directly involved in police-related activities, addressing good governance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing. To this end, the Office co-operated very closely with relevant thematic units, OSCE field operations and partner organizations, such as UNODC, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, the Council of Europe, the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (EAG), and others. Counter-terrorism On 8 September, the OCEEA supported the ATU’s “Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships on Enhancing Tourism Security”, in particular by moderating the discussion on the economic impacts of terrorism and terrorist threats on the tourism sector. One of the conclusions was that especially in countries where the tourism sector constitutes a significant share of the economy, a careful balance needs to be made between facilitation of travel and the need for safety and security of travellers and the host country in order to avoid severe negative economic consequences. Therefore, forming co-operation frameworks between government security and law enforcement agencies, the tourism industry and relevant civil society organizations is important to develop safety and security approaches mindful of the industry concerns (see also chapter 3.1). On 27-29 September, the OCEEA supported the sub-regional workshop on “Preventing and Countering the Financing of Terrorism”, organized by the ATU and UNODC in Chisinau. The workshop gathered law enforcement, financial intelligence and judiciary representatives from OSCE participating States including Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine to exchange experiences in implementing the Financial Action Task Force’s 9 Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing. The OCEEA provided a session on alternative sources of information on terrorist financing activity, including the role that open source information in the form of court cases, academic research and media reporting can play in increasing the effectiveness of national efforts to counter the financing of terrorism (see also chapter 3.1). Financial Investigations and Money Laundering On 11-13 July, the SPMU, jointly with the OCEEA and UNODC, organized a regional seminar on “International Co-operation in Criminal Matters”. The event gathered law enforcement, judiciary and financial intelligence unit (FIU) representatives from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The seminar built upon several workshops of similar scope held in previous years in Almaty, and aimed to support international co-operation between countries most affected by the regional production and transport of opiates. The OCEEA chaired and presented content for the second day of the seminar, which was devoted to interagency and international co-operation in efforts to prevent money laundering (see also chapter 2). On 14-15 July, on the sidelines of the Egmont Plenary, the OCEEA and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units organized a joint “FIU Development Workshop” in Yerevan, which gathered FIU representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to exchange experiences, foster regional co-operation, and for non-Egmont members Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, to learn more about the Egmont accession process. Speakers representing the Egmont Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), USAID, 31